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Modern City (modern + city)
Selected AbstractsThe Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover from DisasterTHE JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE, Issue 4 2005Marshall W. Fishwick No abstract is available for this article. [source] Urban Imaginaries: Locating the Modern City , Edited by Alev Çinar and Thomas BenderINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF URBAN AND REGIONAL RESEARCH, Issue 3 2010Kathleen Dunn No abstract is available for this article. [source] CREATIVE CITIES: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES AND POLICY QUESTIONSJOURNAL OF URBAN AFFAIRS, Issue 1 2006Allen J. Scott I seek to situate the concept of creative cities within the context of the so-called new economy and to trace out the connections of these phenomena to recent shifts in technologies, structures of production, labor markets, and the dynamics of locational agglomeration. I try to show, in particular, how the structures of the new economy unleash historically specific forms of economic and cultural innovation in modern cities. The argument is concerned passim with policy issues and, above all, with the general possibilities and limitations faced by policymakers in any attempt to build creative cities. The effects of globalization are discussed, with special reference to the prospective emergence of a worldwide network of creative cities bound together in relations of competition and cooperation. In the conclusion, I pinpoint some of the darker dimensions,both actual and potential,of creative cities. [source] The Story of Istanbul's ModernisationARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, Issue 1 2010lhan Tekeli Abstract Since reform started under Ottoman rule in the early 19th century, Istanbul has undergone a substantial period of modernisation that has spanned more than 150 years. ,lhan Tekeli outlines the metropolis' enduring development, characterising Istanbul's transformation into a modern city into four distinct periods. It is a story that bridges the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the reconstruction of the Turkish Republic as a nation-state, with the initial demise of the city in favour of Ankara; and continues with Istanbul regaining its status as a world city; as it evolves from a monstrous industrial city to an urban region and global centre. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Vostell's Ruins: dé-collage and the mnemotechnic space of the postwar cityART HISTORY, Issue 1 2000Claudia Mesch This essay considers Wolf Vostell's agenda of commemoration in his dé-collage performances Tour de Vanves. Theater is in the Street (Paris, 1958) and Cityrama (Cologne, 1961). Vostell's fully collaborative and performative notion of dé-collage reconfigured the avant-garde paradigms of performance and collage, once geared toward forgetfulness, in order to fix the specific importance of remembering destruction in the postwar period. Dé-collage marked the evacuation of the symbolic content these avant-gardist forms once possessed in connection with the modern city. While the dé-collage object may superficially resemble the déaffiche lacerée, it is clearly distinguishable from it through its collective and performative mode of production; the essential contradictions of the concept of dé-collage contained a critique of the modernist form of collage. Vostell's commemorative project in dé-collage resonates with the theorization of collage as a materialist paradigm of art by Louis Aragon and Walter Benjamin, who tied collage to revolutionary intent and even transcendence by means of its relation to remembrance and its function as allegory. Vostell turned to the spaces of the postwar German city in 1961 further to investigate the performative spatial mnemonics of dé-collage. Dé-collage staged the postwar city as ,mnemotechnic space', to recover Benjamin's term, thereby escaping the empty repetitions of ,neo-avant-gardism, in rethinking flânerie and collage to encompass the cultural necessity of remembrance. Tours de Vanves and Cityrama actively engaged the issue of collective memory that critical theory had foregrounded as a cultural and epistemological priority of the postwar world. [source] | ||||||||||